How Do You See Chinatown?

Part I: Chinatown, New York features ten original short films. Part II: Chinatown, Online where you can contribute your own film of Chinatowns from all over the world. For more details, check out the project here and also check out the youTube channel too.

steaming cracks and colored landscapes

Photographer Tim Simmons has some of the most amazing nature photography I've ever seen.

Chop Shop

Love the design portfolio of Austin based Ptarmak

Fresh Simplicity

I'm really liking London based Alex Mathers fresh, simple and colorful illustration style.

Illustrated Book Marriage Proposal

Illustrator Joel Kimmel proposed to his girlfriend of five years, Chantal Bennett, on new year’s eve 2010 by writing and illustrating a short story – the final page revealed an antique brass ring with a coral art nouveau design that was hidden inside the book. Read the entire story is on his blog. Wow.

I'm Back...

After a brief hiatus in writing here, and I'm back! I haven't written in my blog since my move to Brooklyn back in November. Three months later I'm freelancing at Showtime Networks, working on a new short film (which I'll be posting progress here) and eating up the culture/creative explosion of New York. So stay tuned for inspiring interviews, event write ups, short film progress, and more!

Above: A couple of weeks ago I attended a Dave Eggers & Chris Ying talk at Tishman Auditorium on the "San Francisco Panorama" (latest experimental newspaper issue of McSweeney's). I would highly recommend picking up a copy, it's an amazing achievement.

Bertelli Biciclette Assemblate

I'm drooling over these bikes...

“Start With A Photo”

I'm a big fan of the 5 second projects over at Greyscale Gorilla, and this weeks (deadline Nov 22) especially caught my eye.

Great album...

Life in the Alphabet

Amazing A5 penciled typography from Saint Petersburg based Eibatova Karina.

Quick update...

So it's been about a month since I posted anything new, reason being I quit my job at BBDO, left Atlanta, moved to New York, started freelancing as a motion designer, and got a sweet bike from Mission Bicycle. Things have been quite crazy the past couple of weeks, but they're starting to settle into place so I'll be posting more often.

Twitter

Lately I've been twittering more than blogging, so follow me @jasondrakeford to get your dose of inspiration... Thanks peeps, see you on the other side!

New Tattoo??

Deciding on a tattoo (my first) this weekend, the work of Deth P. Sun is amazing, trying to decide on which piece to customize, found more of his limited work on Giant Robot too...

Sealions

Today I start pre-production on a music video for the band Sealions. We'll be posting the progress online on Tumblr, not much up today but there will be progress in the coming weeks, storyboards and more.

Roland Tiangco

Love this interactive print piece from Roland Tiangco.

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear

This fan vid from Gabe Askew is pretty dope, the 3d work is very very nice.

new reel is up!

Updated my reel this weekend, added 3 new projects (REI, Save the Children Foundation, and Taxi Etc short film) plus a new track from Spoon. You can watch it in HD too :)

Revenge

Shorts by Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug.

Summer of Love

Saiman Chow has some great illustration pieces that make you look twice.

Nollywood

Photographer Pieter Hugo visited Nollywood (third largest film industry in the world in Nigeria) and made these amazing surreal photos.